Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
READ THIS FIRST: Most academic research writing is problem-based. To identify the purpose of your article, look for a statement of the problem for study. Usually you’ll find it in the first few paragraphs, often in a sentence that begins with “But,” or “However” and creates a contrast with previous research (for example, “Previous research has…. However, it has not yet explored….”).
1a. Please write at least one sentence from your article
that sums up its purpose. -Bernard Hugo Goetz is best known for shooting four young men who tried to mug him on a New York City Subway train, resulting in his convection for illegal firearm.
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose? - The purpose is to try to explain when you are defending yourself and it results in killing someone, you had no choice.
AUDIENCE
READ THIS FIRST: Academic research writing has different audiences, depending on your major. Usually that audience is identified in the first few paragraphs (for example, “Education researchers have long been interested in….”) but sometimes the audience is implicit (not stated directly).
2a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that indicates its audience.
- The judge found him guilty 2b. In your own words, who is the audience? The audience is for anyone interested in the law for example, criminal justice majors.
GENRE
READ THIS FIRST: In different majors, there are important differences in what counts as evidence, how a text is organized, and what kinds of language it uses. To find these differences, you will have to skim through the whole of your article.
3a. Evidence – What counts as evidence in this article?
How do you know?
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?)
There was interviews done with different people studying in criminal justice and whether they believe he should have been found guilty or not. 3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another.
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article). Mine was a book so I don’t know about the headings. 3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example.
(For instance, Education uses terms like “differentiated instruction,” abbreviations like “IEP,” and sometimes uses passive voice “Research was conducted…”)
The whole book is about a man who was being mugged and in self device he shot them and was convicted. Then the book explains the laws with guns and other things that he had got arrested for.
P.A.G.E. Analysis of Professional Journal Article
Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
that sums up its purpose.
-Bernard Hugo Goetz is best known for shooting four young men who tried to mug him on a New York City Subway train, resulting in his convection for illegal firearm.
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose?
- The purpose is to try to explain when you are defending yourself and it results in killing someone, you had no choice.
AUDIENCE
- The judge found him guilty
2b. In your own words, who is the audience?
The audience is for anyone interested in the law for example, criminal justice majors.
GENRE
How do you know?
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?)
There was interviews done with different people studying in criminal justice and whether they believe he should have been found guilty or not.
3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another.
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article).
Mine was a book so I don’t know about the headings.
3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example.
(For instance, Education uses terms like “differentiated instruction,” abbreviations like “IEP,” and sometimes uses passive voice “Research was conducted…”)
The whole book is about a man who was being mugged and in self device he shot them and was convicted. Then the book explains the laws with guns and other things that he had got arrested for.